STORM TRAGEDIES
SNOW BRIDGE COLLAPSES. SEVENTEEN TOURISTS BURIED. ONLY FOUR ARE SAVED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRICHT. Received 2.5 p.m. to-day. VIENNA, March 21. Seventeen tourists were crossing a snow bridge on the Tauern range near Salzburg during a storm, when the bridge collapsed. Four were dug out, but the remainder perished. —“Sydney Sun” cable. HEAVY ELEVATOR FALLS. THIRTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. DISASTER- DURING A GALE. Received 2.-5 p.m. to-day. BERLIN, March 21. A recently constructed elevator weighing seven hundred tons, used to raise waggons, collapsed in a. gale at Merseburg. It killed thirteen persons and injured five. —“Sydney Sun” cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 22 March 1928, Page 9
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